Tophet

noun

ˈtō-fət How to pronounce Tophet (audio)
Definition of Tophetnext
as in hell
the place of punishment for the wicked after death a vision in which the souls of the damned plunged into Tophet like rocks falling down a mountainside

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  1. hell
  2. inferno
  3. perdition
Noun
  • Not-so-happy couple Anne (Synnøve Karlsen) and Patrick (Luke Norris) go on the ultimate hell ride with a gregarious, over-sharing driver (Nick Frost, living it up here).
    Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2024
  • So, the ex-lovers strike a deal: If Agatha can get Billy to willingly turn himself in and let Rio kill him, then Rio will stop pursuing Agatha and making her life hell.
    Rebecca Iannucci, TVLine, 30 Oct. 2024
Definition of hell
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  • In Nickel Boys, the inferno is called the Nickel Academy and the story zooms in on a friendship between two young men, studious and hopeful Elwood, played by Ethan Herisse, and Brandon Wilson’s more cynical Turner.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 27 Sep. 2024
  • This is important because any sort of flaw in a battery could lead to an inferno, says Venkat Srinivasan, who studies batteries and directs the Argonne Collaborative Center for Energy Storage Science at the US’s Argonne National Laboratory.
    Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 15 Sep. 2024
Definition of inferno
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  • Or did Christ die only for us, leaving any other creatures to a kind of limbo or perdition?
    Amelia Soth, JSTOR Daily, 27 June 2024
  • Although Adolf Hitler met his road to perdition, Joseph Stalin survived and extended his despotism.
    Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 14 Mar. 2024
Definition of perdition
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“Tophet.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/Tophet. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.

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